Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence .
2 But you had to win it twice before it became your own property .
3 It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head .
4 So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too .
5 It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute .
6 The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow .
7 Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’
8 Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 .
9 Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play .
10 The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot .
11 The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house .
12 It affected his own supplies , as well as the carriage of news , and forced him to make secondary plans , among other things , for the sale of his new sugar crop .
13 I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave .
14 It renewed my own sense of meaning .
15 In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position .
16 She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy .
17 A distinguished Commission on Electoral Reform set up under the auspices of the Hansard Society published in 1976 a Report in which it included its own proposals for a new electoral system .
18 Peter followed , thinking how such behaviour would have infuriated his mother , and how it strengthened his own position .
19 But the death of John not only confirmed Wordsworth 's adherence to these opinions ; it undermined his former self-sufficiency and cast doubts upon the validity of poetry .
20 This small Privy Council had its own staff and letter-book ; and later , in 1556 , it acquired its own seal .
21 As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun .
22 The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been .
23 It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction .
24 The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher .
25 Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent .
26 It took her several seconds to absorb the letter although it did not in any way fill the one sheet of paper .
27 The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying .
28 The monastery rebuilt the castle keep on Piel Island , whence it exported its own wool in ships built in its own dockyard there .
29 Though advertising revenue freed the press from direct political control , it introduced its own form of constraints on an expanding press in the 20th century .
30 She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction .
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